Medicaid helps provide
medical coverage for lower-income children, our older population, those
with disabilities, and pregnant women. Still, the BCRA would remove
funding for these vulnerable members of our population. Let's make sure
that our senators understand that Medicaid funding is non-negotiable.
5Calls has phone numbers and a call script: https://5calls.org/issue/recUYfszr78yGS7t1

Trump’s “promises” aside,
the Dept. of Transportation has suddenly withdrawn its member from the
board of the Gateway Program Development Corporation that oversees the
planning of the new Gateway rail tunnel connecting NY and NJ. This
tunnel replaces one over 100 years old and is “arguably the most urgent
infrastructure project in America”: http://gothamist.com/2017/07/05/gateway_tunnel_federal_transportation_department.php What this DoT withdrawal means for federal
funding is unclear, but there is ample precedent for federal presence on
the boards of corporations overseeing capital improvements and Trump has
proposed a 13% cut to the DoT budget. We need to tell the DoT
that we expect the federal government to use OUR tax dollars to help
finance this and other such urgent infrastructure projects: DoT 1200 New
Jersey Ave, SE, Washington, DC 20590 or 1 (202) 366-4000

Let’s fight hate crimes
by urging our MoCs to pass the Online Safety Modernization Act. http://katherineclark.house.gov/index.cfm/2017/6/clark-brooks-meehan-push-online-safety-roadmap-combat-sextortion-internet-threats-other-online-crimes This bipartisan bill targets
“doxxing” (release of a victim’s private address to online mobs
threatening rape and murder), “non-consensual pornography” (private photos
published without permission), “sextortion” (demanding sex or money under
threat of exposure of private photos), and “swatting” (calling in fake
emergencies so that armed SWAT teams show up at victims’ homes). The bill
will enact penalties for these activities, and provides additional
resources to federal law enforcement authorities to investigate and
prosecute these crimes.

ALL: Education Secretary Betsy DeVos is
being sued by a coalition of state attorneys general for summarily
rescinding, in violation of federal law, her agency’s Borrower Defense
Rule. The Rule “was designed to hold abusive higher education institutions
accountable for cheating students and taxpayers out of billions of dollars
in federal loans,” according to a press release by Massachusetts Attorney
General Maura Healey, who is leading the coalition, which includes
California, Connecticut, Delaware, Washington, D.C., Hawaii, Illinois,
Iowa, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Mexico, New York, North
Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, and
Washington. http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/07/06/535776573/18-states-sue-betsy-devos-and-education-dept-over-delay-of-borrower-defense-rule If our state’s AG is a member of this
coalition, let’s thank them. If not, let’s contact our state’s AG and tell
them we want the residents of our state to be protected from predatory
for-profit colleges and we expect them to join this coalition. Contact
info here: http://www.naag.org/naag/attorneys-general/whos-my-ag.php

CO: Fight partisan gerrymandering—come
2020, let’s ensure that Colorado’s voters choose their congressional
representatives and not the other way around. A bipartisan coalition led
by the League of Women Voters of Colorado is drafting a 2018 ballot
initiative that would require Colorado’s redistricting commission to
include at least three unaffiliated (neither Democratic nor Republican)
commissioners. In addition, the ballot initiative would require any new
redistricting map to be approved by a supermajority of legislators—a move
intended to get bipartisan consensus in redistricting. http://www.denverpost.com/2017/07/02/end-political-gerrymandering-colorado-unaffiliated-voters/ An
effort will begin this fall to collect the 98,000+ signatures of
registered voters to get this initiative on the ballot. Coloradans, let’s
keep track of this by signing up for news and alerts with the
League, http://lwvcolorado.org/lwv/

MT:
In Missoula Montana, citizens have come together to welcome and embrace
refugees. http://billmoyers.com/story/montana-moms-refugees-welcome/
The organization Soft Landing Missoula has found great ways to collaborate
for results. If we are working on refugee issues, let's add Soft
Landing Missoula to our networks. http://softlandingmissoula.org/
We can write support letters to Mary Poole, Executive Director, Soft
Landing Missoula, 939 Stephens Ave Ste C, Missoula MT 59801-3804, then we
can see if our state offers (or can offer) something similar.

Other Actions

If
we are, or know of, a progressive woman running for office, check out
Project Shelia, which is offering “free and low-cost campaign websites for
progressive women running for office. Use us to start your campaign or
apply to join our web team.” Let’s
check it out: http://projectsheila.net/

Looking
for new ways to be creative in the #resistance? "Trump has awakened an American “craftivism” movement
that’s been dormant since the 1980s AIDS quilt. Craftivism in the US is
largely associated with the resurgent feminist movement, but its roots
trace back to colonial times. In the 1760s, women revolted against British
taxation on textiles by spinning their own yarn and sewing their family’s
clothes. Famous spy Molly “Old Mom” Rinker smuggled messages to George
Washington’s troops through balls of yarn. The taste for slick,
mass-printed messaging has since waned. In lieu of ready-made,
professionally-designed protest paraphernalia, today’s activists—armed
with glue guns, sewing needles, and X-ACTO craft knives—are making
one-of-a-kind protest gear." Pink Pussy hats, beautifully crafted
signs, and sweaters are seen everywhere. Be on the look out for a book by
Sarah Corbett, How
to be a Craftivist: the Art of Gentle Protest which
covers this issues and will be released shortly. These homespun works are
the expressions of the frustrations of all of us living under this
political climate. https://qz.com/1016914/trump-has-awakened-an-american-craftivism-movement-thats-been-dormant-since-the-1980s-aids-quilt/?mc_cid=ec93894bd4&mc_eid=f0e452108b
Take a look and be inspired to craft your own message for the next
march.

The
Town Hall Project has partnered to help create Resistance
Near Me, to help us find local actions items https://resistancenearme.org/ We
can find and/or submit nearby events, including coffee hours, town halls,
rallies, office hours, and general resistance events. Let's check it out
and get active!

On July 12, sites like Amazon, Netflix,
Etsy, Reddit, and Twitter will all be using their platforms to stand up
for the free and open internet and spread the word about FCC Chair Ajit
Pai’s plan to kill net neutrality. We, too, can sign up to be part of this
effort: https://www.battleforthenet.com/july12/

Reading/Watching

A
bit of happy news: Migrant Justice has announced that Esau Peche and
Yesenia Hernandez, who had been detained by Border Patrol following the
Milk With Dignity march on the Ben & Jerry's Vermont production
facility, have been released! ICE ended up receiving over 1,600 e-mails in
support of Esau and Yesenia's release, as well as dozens of letters http://bit.ly/2tMmg7p

"When Donald Trump began
to block a growing number of
Americans from seeing his tweets, the Knight First Amendment Institute
shot back. The organization warned the President in
June that the Twitter account is a public forum, and that excluding
citizens (novelist Stephen King is among those blocked) violates the
Constitution." Read on to see how the crack legal minds at this
institute, affiliated with Columbia University, are working on making
the "case that social media is subject to the First
Amendment." http://fortune.com/2017/07/03/knight-institute-first-amendment-jaffer/

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Rogan’s List is a daily, thoroughly vetted action list for people who are unhappy with the current administration and who want to become more politically involved, but do not have time for the research. The compiler, Susan Goodrich Rogan, is a retired librarian who has worked in university, community college, and elementary school libraries. She is the mother of eleven and the grandmother of nine..